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Test Driver(s)
VIVI - Virtual Video Driver
A real v4l2 device driver with no physical hardware. This means anyone can use it. If your application has problems with a specific device driver, try using vivi instead. If you still have a problem, it is much more likely to be a problem with the application than with the driver. Knowing where to look is a big help in fixing problems.
However, vivi is not
- perfect. Not surprising given it doesn't get the amount of real world use that real drivers do.
- feature complete. It does not implement every interface of the v4l2 spec (yet.)
But it is something anyone can run, so it makes reproducing some problems possible that would otherwise be impossible without the specific hardware.
Test applications
Simple programs that test various functionality of a driver.
There are many small test apps that seem to have been written to help isolate an existing problem, as opposed to actively looking for problems. This means the tests make assumptions about what is/isn't supported, which can cause false problems when someone else uses them in a different environment. For instance, a test should not be run unless the driver advertises suppport for it. This means all tests should first xioctl(fd, VIDIOC_QUERYCAP, &cap) and test cap.capabilities to see if the rest of the test is applicable. (note I said 'should' - This does not mean you shouldn't post your test code it it does not comply - something is better than nothing.)
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Tough business: Collier's boss talks shop
It's early afternoon at Collier's Towing Service, and owner Glenda Jones takes a break from the phones to greet a reporter in the impound lot for cars towed from Keith Woodard's and other parking lots. Her purple shirt, earrings, and necklace all sport the Harley Davidson logo, a tribute to her favorite pasttime and a suggestion that this woman's tough. To run a business that puts her in the company of angry vehicle owners takes nerve of steel. But hardness, she says, doesn't mean heartless.
"I'm a good person," says Jones, reaching a hand through the fence that runs the length of the lot to scratch the heads of her two rescued pit bulls.
"They're really just big babies," she says, as one of the dogs offers a fetchable stick and the other, tail wagging, stops barking to poke her nose through a fence to greet a visitor.
At nearly 60, Jones has been in the business for decades. In the '80s and 1990s she co-owned Jones' Wrecker Service with her husband. After divorce, about eight years ago, she purchased Collier's to provide independent income.
"It's been good," says Jones. "I'm not rich, but I can pay my bills."
The public's perception of towing operators as greedy and predatory, however, can be hard to take.
"I feel like I shouldn't have to defend us," she says. "We're doing our job."
The majority of that job, she says, is not "violation" tows– which only happen, she estimates, about 20 times a week– but contracts with the American Automobile Association, Allstate Insurance, and myriad repair shops.
"I've been called a bitch; I've been called a rip-off artist," says Jones. "I don't argue with them."
As unpleasant as it is to be on the receiving end of vitriol, she says that she's never had to call the police and that most encounters are pleasant.
"Probably 80 percent of people come in here respectful," she says. "They understand they didn't follow the rules." As for the other 20 percent, "They are mad at themselves, and they take it out on everybody."
One of the biggest complaints about towing is the demand for cash, particularly at night, when withdrawing and carrying a wad of bills may create its own safety hazard. Jones says she stopped accepting credit cards and checks after "multiple" towees stopped payment.
"People say, 'Well, you only take cash, so you pocket it," says Jones, stressing that she issues receipts for every transaction and pays taxes on all income.
So is it true that the drivers who patrol the Woodard lot and other lots get a cut of the action? It is. Jones says her drivers work on a 40 percent commission, a fact that explains their reluctance, when the owner returns, to release vehicles without receiving the full fee.
Jones says she encourages her drivers to be courteous, even in the face of rudeness, and she understands the frustration of her unwilling customers.
"I'd be upset if I got towed," she says. "I know it's not fun."Read more on: Collier's Towing ServiceGlenda Joneskeith woodardtowing
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I'm going to presume that a hook reporter while in dire need of some story news got towed and that is how this news story hatched? How it got by the editor god only knows. I have to admit Glenda seems like a real sweety.
At 20 impounds a week minus the 40% commission and kickbacks it looks like she is making about 100k for herself just on the impounds...
Has there ever been anyone who siad thet they DIDN"T pay all their taxes?
Well, folks, you see the article! There is a reason a stereotype becomes a stereotype.
R.I.P.: James Buchanan
As a "liberal-ace" I suppose you would rather she be on government assistance?
R.I.P.: Those annoying RIPs
Not sure what my post has to do with her being gainfully employed. Read the first two graphs; they answer the "stereotype" question.
R.I.P: Marty Allen
Bill Marshall, someone who has CLEARLY never owned his own business.
Why do you say that
20 impounds at 145 is 2900 bucks... less the kickback to the lot owner of 25 bucks per tow leaves 2400 bucks, less 40% of the 95 dollar towing fee going to the drivers leaves $1545
Assuming that we take her at her word that impounds are only a small part of her business then the office, insurance and truck maintanace (for the 1 mile tow) is already amortized then she is grossing $80,340 bucks on impounds alone. Thats a lot of ducketts for such a "small" part of her business.
sorry,,,,, "netting" $80340 bucks on impounds alone.....
"As unpleasant as it is to be on the receiving end of vitriol, she says that she's never had to call the police and that most encounters are pleasant."
Totally False. As a person who is very aware of where the police go and why they are going, there are calls for disorders several times a month at Collier's towing. I've also dealt with the owner on several of these issues and she's not the nice person portrayed in this article. A simple FOIA request to the police department and the 911 center for calls for service to 202 5th St SW would show this.
the people call the cops not the owner and its nothing the cops can do about a car being towed
Untrue. The complainant is sometimes the person towed. But there are many calls from Ms. Jones and/or one of her wrecker operators.
why are they calling they have the car in a locked lot they may call for the person and how do u know are u a cop why are u dealing with them u must be a cop or got towed and if u not a cop you don't know whats going on i know a few cops and a few at the call center but i dont know what they do everyday
A simple FOIA request to the police department and the 911 center for calls for service to 202 5th St SW would not give anybody a true picture. The tow truck drivers themselves often call the police for assistance when an unruly person shows up at the various parking lots, refuses to pay, and wants his/her car dropped. The addresses would therefore be assorted.
I didn't pay. I got towed. I got my car back. lesson learned. this town SURE knows how to over react. wow. put on your big city pants and deal


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Although Bill Paxton has known Tom Cruise in passing over the years, their paths have never crossed on a movie set until he traveled to London last year to work on director Doug Liman's new sci-fi action thriller "Edge of Tomorrow." And while Paxton has had his share of physical roles since he career kicked off in the early 1980s, it didn't take long for the acclaimed actor to realize when you sign up to do a film with Cruise, you hit the ground running -- even when it's in a metal exo-suit.
"When I arrived in London, Doug took me to a sound stage where Tom was trying on one of the exo-suits that the special effects guys built. When he saw me walking across the stage he yelled to me, 'Hey, Paxton. It's about time you got here! Are you ready to work out? These things are going to be punishing.' I was kind of like, 'Oh, f---,'" Paxton told me, laughing, in a recent interview. "I had already been working out, but these suits were about 70 pounds."
Paxton said the special effects artists "made the suits as light as they could, but because of what they had to do, there were a lot of metal parts."
"That was the most challenging part of the role ? the physicality of it," Paxton said. "But Tom loves a challenge and he's a very physical cat, so he'd just egg all of us on to do what he was doing. You can't complain when No. 1 isn't bitching about the suits."
Opening in 2D and 3D theaters nationwide Friday, "Edge of the Tomorrow" stars Cruise as Maj. William Cage, a military officer who recruits soldiers for an international coalition to fight off brutal alien invaders, even though he has never seen a day of combat himself. Cage's luck runs out, though, when he is suddenly thrust into a suicide mission against his brutal enemies and is killed within minutes -- only to instantly wake up at an earlier point in time in his life to discover that he's been thrown into a mysterious time loop.
Through the help of Special Forces Warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), Cage learns how he can effectively "re-set" his day by dying. His multiple deaths ultimately give Cage the opportunities to relive the same battle over and over again, but each time learning his enemies' moves as he develops his own skills and precision -- leading him one step closer each time to the key to winning the war.
Paxton stars as Master Sgt. Farrell, a tough-as-nails combat leader who initially holds sway over Cage, only to eventually outsmarted by the soldier since his time-loop secret has only been shared with select people.
"Edge of Tomorrow" is packed with lots of action and stunning visual effects, naturally, but woven within the film is a smart, mind-bending plot laced with lots of wicked humor. It's the sort of thing Paxton said he craves as an actor.
"The role played to all of my strengths. I love playing these real ramrod characters. I also love that was this real perversity built into it -- it had this nice vein of dark humor that runs through all of it from the script. Plus, Doug Liman has great sensibilities as a director as well as an entertainer."
Working virtually nonstop in both film and TV for the past 30-plus years, Paxton has done it all, from action, comedy and drama, to crime thrillers, horror and science fiction. The 59-year-old actor told me that he's not necessarily drawn to one particular genre, although he's glad that directors like James Cameron and Liman have called on for science fiction fare like "Aliens" and "Edge of Tomorrow."
"It's a luck of the draw, really. I like science fiction and using my imagination, and love the scale of sci-fi," Paxton said. "I also love the production design of sci-fi films. You have to remember I started out in the art department on films. That's how I met Jim Cameron, as a set dresser years ago on the movie 'Galaxy of Terror.' The big visions the films have are challenging, physically, but I love to see spectacle. You pay the price, though, because they are painstaking to make. You can spend many endless days just to shoot a three-minute sequence, like on the battlefield of 'Edge of Tomorrow,' for example."
Paxton said he feels blessed to continue getting opportunities to work with directors the ilk of the Cameron and Liman because as effects-heavy as their movies are, the visual tools they use never outweigh the importance of the narrative.
"Jim and Doug are top directors, and as a film actor, you look to see who's directing the picture before you sign on," Paxton said. "I've been lucky lately to work with some really good directors. Sometimes you take a chance on a new director, but you go in to talk with them and you feel their passion, but it's a no-brainer when Jim Cameron or Doug Liman calls you up because you know you're going to be in good hands because they're really good storytellers -- I get just as excited about the director on a film than I do any other aspect of it because it all starts and ends with them."
That's not to say Paxton doesn't appreciate his fellow actors -- especially one as enthusiastic as Cruise.
"Tom was super-personable on the film and really encouraged me," Paxton said. "Early on he said to me, 'Paxton, you're killing this part,' and I said, 'Tom, we haven't even shot anything yet!' Then he, 'Yeah, but you're killing it!' You want to be with good actors like that because they're going to bring your game up. It's like a tennis match. The better players you play with, the better your game gets. Tom has a great sense of professionalism and brings a real passion and conviction to whatever's he's doing."


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Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher Set to Visit SUNY Canton
State University of New York Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher will be visiting and touring SUNY Canton on Monday, July 27 as part of her summer-long tour of the 64 colleges and universities within the SUNY system.
"We plan on showing her several of the positive initiatives exclusive to our college," said SUNY Canton President Joseph L. Kennedy. "This is a constantly evolving and growing environment, with extraordinary growth in our online and international initiatives, in addition to our facilities construction and renovations."
The Chancellor will have the opportunity to meet with more than 80 international students and faculty members from the American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia, and several Chinese institutions.
Kennedy and the college's faculty and staff will also be highlighting the most recent progress on the new Convocation, Athletic, and Recreation Center, residence renovations, and the major overhaul of Nevaldine Technology Center.
The Chancellor's tour of campus will be open to the media beginning at 3 p.m. Monday, July 27, and will include a rooftop view of the campus and a stop at SUNY Canton's newly renovated, state-of-the-art nursing labs in Wicks Hall. This portion of the visit is specifically designed for media desiring photographs or video footage.
The tour will conclude with a 3:30 question-and-answer session for the media with Kennedy and Zimpher, followed by a reception, in the Newell Veterinary Technology Center.
Media arrangements should be made in advance by contacting SUNY Canton Public Relations at 315-386-7300, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
SUNY Canton offers a wide variety of career-driven bachelor's, associate, and certificate programs, as well as three master's degrees in conjunction with SUNYIT, Utica. Most of SUNY Canton's new four-year programs are designed so students can take them on-campus, online, or both. SUNY Canton OnLine features more than 100 courses online each semester. The College's athletic teams belong to the NAIA's Sunrise Conference, enabling students to compete in their respective sports for four years. Construction is now underway for the College's new Convocation, Athletic, and Recreation Center.
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Jazz Fanatical: Living and Dying by the Jazz
What you won't find here: any sort of statistical, match-up, trade, X's & O's, salary cap, or draft analysis.
What you will find here: decades of pent-up Jazz fanaticism, useless commentary, exact transcriptions, gifs and critiques of players' clothes and hair.
How the love affair started: Watching the Dream Team in the 1992 Olympics (even though I had no idea who any of the players were), and for reasons I can't explain just loving the way Karl Malone played. When the Olympics were over and the NBA season started, I was a Jazz fan.
How this site started: Lone Jazz fan in a land of non-Jazz fans. Carlos Boozer's "defense." An overpowering need to vent. No one to vent to. Signed up for blog account. Rest is history.
In a nutshell: I miss Karl, miss John, love AK-47, and will in all likelihood never get over the departure of Jerry Sloan.
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This is my favorite Jazz website. I come on multiple times a day so I don't miss anything. Thank you very much for all you do.
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He was your typical college kid, persuaded to sign up for his first credit card right there on the college campus. It didn't take long for Rance Bobo to max that card out when he bought a bike. After that, he signed up for a few more cards, using them to buy clothes and stuff for school.
The debt started catching up to him, so he decided to take out student loans to pay it off and help make ends meet. By the time Bobo left college, he was $20,000 in the hole. That didn't stop him from taking out another 20 grand for a car loan.
More than a decade later, Bobo, now 30, is still chipping away at his $30,000 tab. Even if he is saddled with debt, with no end in sight, Bobo's not losing any sleep over it. He finds it hard to save money, and is often tempted to spend it on nice clothes and the latest technology.
He describes his penchant for living beyond his means as a mark of his generation, one made up of folks who will drop $4 on a coffee drink without a second thought and who pride themselves on having the latest gadget in hand.
"With our generation, it's 'What do you need? What do you want?'" says Bobo, sitting outside the office at San Jose State University where he works as a counseling coordinator.
"I'm trying to take care of my debt, because I want options," he says, "but there are these new pants I have been eyeing for months. They are 80 bucks. But man, I've got to have them."
Our grandparents understood the value of a dollar. They stashed coins in piggy banks and contributed to their savings accounts. That's when credit cards didn't exist and borrowing money to buy a car was out of the question.
What happened to that old-fashioned American virtue called thrift? Americans have taken the term "living beyond our means" to a whole new level, as we continue to live with debt and no savings.
This is particularly true among young professionals. In a recent survey of 5,000 Gen X-ers conducted by Charles Schwab, roughly 25 percent said they are living paycheck to paycheck, while 17 percent said they follow the "spend now, pay later" code. Those numbers might not seem to indicate a problem, but less than 15 percent described themselves as "cautious savers."
"Spending is no longer keeping up with the Joneses, now it's keeping up with the Hiltons," says Matt Murray, executive director of the American Association of Young People, a youth economic advocacy group based in Colorado.
George Loewenstein, a 53-year-old professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, says that younger generations have a completely different outlook on spending and saving than even his generation. "There has been a sea change in the attitude toward debt," Loewenstein says. "Perhaps the young people are going to reach a point of desperation, and they will realize they cannot sustain a lifestyle they want using debt."
A study released in April by the Journal of Consumer Research titled "Tightwads and Spendthrifts" showed that younger generations have different spending and savings habits than their grandparents. The study showed that people between the ages of 21 and 30 were more likely to be spendthrifts, meaning they chronically spend beyond their means. The older generations were more likely to be tightwads, or save beyond their comfort level.
Of the 13,300 people surveyed nationally, those who were over the age of 70 were most likely to be tightwads, regardless of their income level, according to the study. Could this mean that as we age, we get a better handle on savings and spending habits?
"That is the big question we can't answer yet," says Scott Rick, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business college who co-authored the study. Rick suggests aversion to spending might have more to do with history than with age. "Is it generational, and people over the age of 70 are tightwads because of their upbringing and the Depression?"
Some experts say it's just that. The fact that baby boomers never experienced the true economic hardships that their parents faced might explain why they have not developed good savings habits. Being born in a generation where you were forced to live within your means sticks with you throughout life, these financial experts say.
However, Rick says there's no evidence that tightwads were always tightwads. He and other researchers plan to do follow-up studies to determine whether spending and saving habits are generational.
One thing is for sure: Younger generations are strapped with more financial burdens than their grandparents, such as the skyrocketing cost of education. That, as well as the growing disappearance of pension plans, has forced many young professionals and college students far into debt.
Nearly 66 percent of undergraduate students have some debt upon college. In 2004, the average student-loan debt among graduating seniors was $19,237, according to the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study. That is up from 1997, when studies showed the average student loan debt was about $11,400.
There is psychological effect to that. When someone has so much debt in one area, it becomes easier to take on debt in another area. A study released last month by Nellie Mae, a Massachusetts-based education-financing company, found that more than nine in 10 graduate students had at least one credit card last year with an average balance of $8,612.
"I have $45,000 in debt," said one recent college grad. "A lot have so much college debt, so what's another couple hundred?"
The savings rate among Americans has plummeted over the last three decades. In the mid-1960s, Americans saved an average of 8 percent of their personal income. That dropped to 2.4 percent in 2002. Today, the average savings rate among Americans is 0 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Wealthier Americans are saving substantially more, while poorer Americans are going further into debt.
"It's near crisis," said Robert Duvall, president of the National Council on Economic Education, a New York-based financial-education group. "The fact that credit card debt keeps spiraling upward and personal bankruptcy is going up for people at a young age, and there is a negative savings rate in this country—this is a significant yellow blinking warning light for the nation."
Credit cards are much to blame.
The credit card as we know it today emerged in the mid-1960s. Most Americans had easy access to them by 1980. Analysts have watched the savings rate quickly drop as more Americans got credit cards. Today, most college kids can get their first credit card when they walk into their campus bookstore.
That's what happened to 21-year-old Diamond Richards, who now has more than $55,000 worth of debt, including medical bills and credit card payments. Richards had already blown through some of her college money by the time she got to Evergreen Valley College a few years ago. She was on financial aid and in need of money. So she signed up for credit cards and continued buying things, maxing three credit cards to purchase clothes, shoes and whatever else she wanted. When she started getting statements and bills she couldn't afford to pay, Richards realized she needed to put an end to her spending sprees.
She cut up her credit cards. And now she is trying pay off what she owes, slowly.
But still, like many of her friends, Richards doesn't feel that debt is something to worry about; it's just a part of life. "I don't stress about it," she says.
The lack of savings among Americans is not just a personal problem; it's bad for the national economy, according to Ronald Wilcox, author of Whatever Happened to Thrift: Why Americans Don't Save and What to Do About It. Easy access to credit cards, and the fact that people can finance almost anything from a washing machine to a pound puppy, has created a false sense of wealth, Wilcox says.
It's something that policymakers need to address, he says. Although there have been some attempts to establish credit card reform, Wilcox says, what the government needs to do is create incentives for people to save money. He points to Barack Obama's plans to bolster savings among Americans.
Obama proposes requiring small businesses to offer automatic deduction pension plans similar to what larger companies offer. Another plan would allow anyone who makes $75,000 or less to deposit up to $1,000 annually in an IRA and the government would match it.
"There has to be some government intervention," says Wilcox, who is also a professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. "It's a large public-policy problem."
Another part of the problem is that young people don't have basic budgeting skills. Nobody has taught them about money and investing. They don't know the difference between "good" debt and "bad" debt. Economists know that taking out loans to pay for a college education is good, while racking up credit card debt to order pizzas and buy new shoes is bad. Many members of Generation X and Y apparently haven't figured that out.
There's no reason to believe the next generation will be any better about spending and saving money. In a recent Charles Schwab survey of 1,000 American parents and teens between the ages of 13 and 18, roughly 30 percent said their parents talk with them about money and budgeting. Still, most teens said they have more knowledge about how to use a credit card than how to pay for college.
About 45 percent of teens surveyed said they know how to use a credit card, while only 26 percent said they actually understand how credit card fees and interest rates work. Moreover, only 7 percent of those teens said they could go a week without spending money.
What this country needs is a greater push for financial literacy, Duvall says. Not just your basic Econ 101 classes, which focus on big economic issues, but courses on personal finances—how to budget, save and dodge unnecessary debt.
"Some say that finances and how to spend your money is something that parents should teach," Duvall says, "but the fact is that a lot of parents are in trouble."
That's true for Ryan Lundell. The 27-year-old bartender says nobody really talked to him about budgeting when he was growing up. But that didn't matter. He learned to stay away from credit cards by watching family members and friends get mired in debt.
Throughout college, Lundell managed to remain an atypical tightwad for his age, only shelling out money for things he absolutely needed. To this day, he doesn't own a credit card, fearing it would get the best of him. "If I can't pay for it, I don't buy it," he says.
But staying out of financial trouble doesn't require becoming a tightwad. There are ways to enjoy life and still keep your head above water.
Experts say younger generations need to start saving money now. A good way to track spending habits is to carry cash, and use a debit card instead of a credit card. After getting paid, put some money into a savings account.
Even packing lunch and cutting back on coffee can go a long way. Part of the problem in spending is that consumers have lost sight of how the small purchases, such as $4 cappuccinos, can add up.
"We have difficulty understanding the cumulative effects of small things," says Loewenstein. "If you eat one bag of Doritos, it won't make you fat, but if you eat a couple bags per day, it will make you fat. It's the same thing: a latte or two won't make you broke but a couple lattes every day add up."


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Bracewell, Kelly ORCID: 0000-0003-4635-7489, Larkins, Cath ORCID: 0000-0003-2999-6916, Radford, Lorraine and Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625 (2020) Educational Opportunities and Obstacles for Teenagers Living in Domestic Violence Refuges. Child Abuse Review . ISSN 0952-9136
Chantler, Khatidja ORCID: 0000-0001-9129-2560, Robbins, Rachel ORCID: 0000-0002-6207-7703, Baker, Victoria Louise and Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625 (2020) Learning from Domestic Homicide Reviews in England and Wales. Health and Social Care in the Community, 28 (2). pp. 485-493. ISSN 0966-0410
Williamson, Victoria, Borschmann, Rohan, Zimmerman, Cathy, Howard, Louise M., Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625 and Oram, Sian (2020) Responding to the health needs of trafficked people: A qualitative study of professionals in England and Scotland. Health & Social Care in the Community, 28 (1). pp. 173-181. ISSN 0966-0410
Lever Taylor, Billie, Mosse, Liberty and Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625 (2019) Experiences of social work intervention among mothers with perinatal mental health needs. Health & Social Care in the Community, 27 (6). pp. 1586-1596. ISSN 0966-0410
Domoney, Jill, Fulton, Elaine, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, McIntyre, Amanda, Heslin, Margaret, Byford, Sarah, Bick, Debra, Ramchandani, Paul, MacMillan, Harriet et al (2019) For Baby's Sake: Intervention Development and Evaluation Design of a Whole-Family Perinatal Intervention to Break the Cycle of Domestic Abuse. Journal of Family Violence, 34 (6). pp. 539-551. ISSN 0885-7482
Arai, Lisa, Heawood, Ali, Feder, Gene, Howarth, Emma, MacMillan, Harriet, Moore, Theresa H. M., Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625 and Gregory, Alison (2019) Hope, Agency, and the Lived Experience of Violence: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Children's Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Abuse. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse . ISSN 1524-8380
Mackenzie, Mhairi, Bradley, Lisa, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Gannon, Maria, Barton, Deborah, Cosgrove, Katie, Conway, Ellie and Feder, Gene (2019) What might Normalisation Process Theory bring to policy implementation studies? Learning lessons and uncovering questions through a case study of the profound implementation failure of a new policing policy. Social Policy & Administration, 53 (3). pp. 449-463. ISSN 0144-5596
Mackenzie, Mhairi, Gannon, Maria, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Cosgrove, Katie and Feder, Gene (2019) 'You certainly don't go back to the doctor once you've been told, "I'll never understand women like you."' Seeking candidacy and structural competency in the dynamics of domestic abuse disclosure. Sociology of Health & Illness, 41 (6). pp. 1159-1174. ISSN 0141-9889
Trevillion, Kylee, Shallcross, Rebekah, Ryan, Elizabeth, Heslin, Margaret, Pickles, Andrew, Byford, Sarah, Jones, Ian, Johnson, Sonia, Pawlby, Susan et al (2019) Protocol for a quasi-experimental study of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of mother and baby units compared with general psychiatric inpatient wards and crisis resolution team services (The ESMI study) in the provision of care for women in the postpartum period. BMJ Open, 9 (3). e025906.
Howarth, Emma, Moore, Theresa HM, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, MacMillan, Harriet L., Feder, Gene and Shaw, Alison (2019) Towards an ecological understanding of readiness to engage with interventions for children exposed to domestic violence and abuse: Systematic review and qualitative synthesis of perspectives of children, parents and practitioners. Health & Social Care in the Community, 27 (2). pp. 271-292. ISSN 0966-0410
Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Chantler, Khatidja ORCID: 0000-0001-9129-2560 and Robbins, Rachel ORCID: 0000-0002-6207-7703 (2019) Children and Domestic Homicide. The British Journal of Social Work, 49 (1). pp. 59-76. ISSN 0045-3102
Gellatly, Judith, Bee, Penny, Gega, Lina, Bower, Peter, Hunter, Diane, Stewart, Paul, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Calam, Rachel, Holt, Kim et al (2018) A community-based intervention (Young SMILES) to improve the health-related quality of life of children and young people of parents with serious mental illness: randomised feasibility protocol. Trials, 19 . p. 550.
Aghtaie, Nadia, Larkins, Cath ORCID: 0000-0003-2999-6916, Barter, Christine Anne ORCID: 0000-0001-5682-5333, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Wood, Marsha and Øverlien, Carolina (2018) Interpersonal violence and abuse in young people's relationships in five European countries: online and offline normalisation of heteronormativity. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 2 (2). pp. 293-310. ISSN 2398-6808
Millett, Lottie, Taylor, Billie Lever, Howard, Louise M, Bick, Debra, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625 and Johnson, Sonia (2017) Experiences of Improving Access to Psychological Therapy Services for Perinatal Mental Health Difficulties: a Qualitative Study of Women's and Therapists' Views. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy . pp. 1-16. ISSN 1352-4658
Stanley, Nicky, Palmary, I and Chantler, Khatidja (2017) Introduction to special issue on 'violence against women and children in diverse contexts'. Families, Relationships and Societies, 6 (2). pp. 163-166. ISSN 2046-7435
Barter, Christine Anne, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Wood, Marsha, Lanau, Alba, Aghtaie, Nadia, Larkins, Cath and Overlien, Caronlina (2017) Young people's online and face-to-face experiences of interpersonal violence and abuse and its subjective impact across five European countries. Psychology of Violence, 7 (3). pp. 375-384. ISSN 2152-0828
Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625 and Humphreys, Cathy (2017) Identifying the key components of a 'whole family' intervention for families experiencing domestic violence and abuse. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 1 . pp. 99-115. ISSN 2398-6808
Lewis, Natalia V., Larkins, Cath, Stanley, Nicky, Szilassy, Eszter, Turner, William, Drinkwater, Jessica and Feder, Gene S (2017) Training on domestic violence and child safeguarding in general practice: a mixed method evaluation of a pilot intervention. BMC Family Practice, 18 (33).
McCarry, Melanie, Larkins, Cath, Berry, Vashti, Radford, Lorraine and Stanley, Nicky (2017) The Potential for Co-Production in Developing Violence Against Women Services in Wales. Social Policy and Society . ISSN 1474-7464
Drinkwater, Jessica, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Szilassy, Eszter, Larkins, Cath, Hester, Marianne and Feder, Gene (2017) Juggling Confidentiality and Safety: a qualitative study of how general practice clinicians document domestic violence in families with children. British Journal of General Practice . ISSN 0960-1643
Howarth, Emma, Moore, Theresa HM, Welton, Nicky J, Lewis, Natalia, Stanley, Nicky, MacMillan, Harriet, Shaw, Alison, Hester, Marianne, Bryden, Peter et al (2016) IMPRoving Outcomes for children exposed to domestic ViolencE (IMPROVE): an evidence synthesis. Public Health Research, 4 (10). pp. 1-342. ISSN 2050-4381
Szilassy, Eszter, Drinkwater, Jess, Hester, Marianne, Larkins, Cath, Stanley, Nicky, Turner, William and Feder, Gene (2016) Making the links between domestic violence and childsafeguarding: an evidence-based pilot traning for general practice. Health and Social Care in the Community .
Westwood, Joanne, Howard, Louise M, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Zimmerman, Cathy, Gerada, Clare and Oram, Sian (2016) Access to, and experiences of, Healthcare Services by Trafficked People: Findings from a Mixed-Methods Study in England. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), 66 (652). e794-e801. ISSN 0960-1643
Barter, Christine and Stanley, Nicky (2016) Inter-personal Violence and Abuse in Adolescent Intimate Relationships: Mental Health Impact and Implications for Practice. International Review of Psychiatry, 28 . pp. 485-503. ISSN 0954-0261
Stanley, Nicky, Ellis, Jane, Farrelly, Nicola Jane, Hollinghurst, S, Bailey, S and Downe, Soo ORCID: 0000-0003-2848-2550 (2016) 'What matters to someone who matters to me': Using media campaigns with young people to prevent interpersonal violence and abuse. Health Expectations . ISSN 1369-6513
Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Oram, Siân, Jakobowitz, Sharon, Westwood, Joanne Louise, Borschmann, Rohan, Zimmerman, Cathy and Howard, Louise M. (2016) The health needs and healthcare experiences of young people trafficked into the UK. Child Abuse & Neglect, 59 . pp. 100-110. ISSN 0145-2134
Hemmings, Stacey, Jakobowitz, Sharon, Abas, Melanie, Bick, Debra, Howard, Louise M., Stanley, Nicky, Zimmerman, Cathy and Oram, Sian (2016) Responding to the health needs of survivors of human trafficking: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research, 16 (1). p. 320. ISSN 1472-6963
Oram, Sian, Abas, Melanie, Bick, Debra, Boyle, Adrian, French, Rebecca, Jakobowitz, Sharon, Khondoker, Mizanur, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Trevillion, Kylee et al (2016) Human Trafficking and Health: A Survey of Male and Female Survivors in England. The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), 106 (6). pp. 1073-1078. ISSN 0090-0036
Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Barter, Christine ORCID: 0000-0001-5682-5333, Wood, Marsha, Aghtaie, Nadia, Larkins, Cath ORCID: 0000-0003-2999-6916, Lanau, Alba and Overlien, Carolina (2016) Pornography, sexual coercion and abuse and sexting in young people's intimate relationships: A European study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 33 (19). pp. 2919-2944. ISSN 0886-2605
Stanley, Nicky, Larkins, Cath, Austerberry, Helen, Farrelly, Nicola Jane, Manthorpe, Jill and Ridley, Julie (2016) Rethinking place and the social work office in the delivery of children's social work services. Health & Social Care in the Community, 24 (1). pp. 86-94. ISSN 09660410
Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Ellis, Jane, Farrelly, Nicola Jane, Hollinghurst, Sandra and Downe, Soo ORCID: 0000-0003-2848-2550 (2015) Preventing domestic abuse for children and young people: A review of School-based interventions. Children and Youth Services Review, 59 . pp. 120-131. ISSN 0190-7409
Wood, Marsha, Barter, Christine, Stanley, Nicky, Aghtaie, Nadia and Larkins, Cath (2015) Images across Europe: The sending and receiving of sexual images and associations with interpersonal violence in young people's relationships. Children and Youth Services Review, 59 . pp. 149-160. ISSN 01907409
Larkins, Cath ORCID: 0000-0003-2999-6916, Drinkwater, Jessica, Hester, Marianne, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Szilassy, Eszter and Feder4, Gene (2015) General practice clinicians' perspectives on involving and supporting children and adult perpetrators in families experiencing domestic violence and abuse. Family Practice, 32 (6). pp. 701-705. ISSN 0263-2136
Howarth, E, Moore, THM, Shaw, ARG, Welton, NJ, Hester, M, Feder, GS, MacMillan, HL and Stanley, Nicky (2015) The effectiveness of targeted interventions for children exposed to domestic violence: Measuring success in ways that matter to children and parents. Child Abuse Review, 24 (4). pp. 297-310.
Turner, William, Broad, Jonathan, Drinkwater, Jessica, Firth, Adam, Hester, Marianne, Stanley, Nicky, Szilassy, Eszter and Feder, Gene (2015) Interventions to improve the response of professionals to children exposed to domestic violence and abuse: a systematic review. Child Abuse Review .
Mallon, Sharon and Stanley, Nicky (2015) Creation of a Death by Suicide: How do bereaved young adults come to understand the death of a friend as suicide? Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 1 (1). pp. 1-6. ISSN 0227-5910 (Print); 2151-2396 (Online)
Bell, Jo, Stanley, Nicky, Mallon, Sharon and Manthorpe Pridmore, Jill (2015) Insights into the Processes of Suicide Contagion: Narratives from Young People Bereaved by Suicide. Sucidology Online, 6 (1). pp. 43-52. ISSN 2078-5488
Stanley, Nicky and Humphreys, C (2014) Multi-agency risk assessment and management for children and families experiencing domestic violence. Children and Youth Services Review, 47 (1). pp. 78-85.
Ridley, Julie, Larkins, Cath, Farrelly, Nicola, Austerberry, H, Bilson, Andrew, Hussein, S, Manthorpe, J and Stanley, Nicky (2013) Investing in the relationship: reflections on changes in practitioners' relationships with looked-after children and care leavers in Social Work Practices. Child and Family Social Work .
Larkins, Cath, Ridley, Julie, Farrelly, Nicola Jane, Austerberry, H, Bilson, Andrew, Hussein, S, Manthorpe, Jill and Stanley, Nicky (2013) Children's, Young People's and Parents' Perspectives on Contact: Findings from the Evaluation of Social Work Practices. The British Journal of Social Work, N/A (N/A). N/A. ISSN 0045-3102
Hussein, Shereen, Austerberry, Helen, Bilson, Andy, Farrelly, Nicola Jane, Larkins, Cath, Manthorpe, Jill, Ridley, Julie and Stanley, Nicky (2013) Independent Children's Social Work Practice Pilots: Evaluating Practitioners' Job Control and Burnout. Research on Social Work Practice . ISSN 1049-7315
Austerberry, Helen, Stanley, Nicky, Larkins, Cath, Ridley, Julie, Farrelly, Nicola Jane, Manthorpe, Jill and Hussein, Shereen (2013) Foster carers and family contact: foster carers' views of social work support. Adoption & Fostering, 37 (2). pp. 116-129. ISSN 0308-5759
Stanley, Nicky, Fell, Benedict, Miller, Pam, Thomson, Gill ORCID: 0000-0003-3392-8182 and Watson, John (2012) Men's Talk: Men's understanding of violence against women and motivations for change. Violence Against Women, 18 (11). pp. 1300-1318. ISSN 1077-8012
Stanley, Nicky, Austerberry, Helen, Bilson, Andy, Farrelly, Nicola, Hargreaves, Katrina, Hussein, Shereen, Ingold, Anne, Manthorpe, Jill, Ridley, Julie et al (2012) Establishing Social Work Practices in England: The Early Evidence. The British Journal of Social Work . pp. 1-17. ISSN 0045-3102
Stanley, Nicky, Graham-kevan, Nicola ORCID: 0000-0003-0621-3093 and Borthwick, Rachel (2012) Fathers and Domestic Violence - building motivation for change through perpetrator programmes. Child Abuse Review, 21 (4). pp. 264-274. ISSN 0952-9136
Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Miller, Pam and Richardson Foster, Helen ORCID: 0000-0002-1871-1578 (2012) Engaging with Children's and Parents' Perspectives on Domestic Violence. Child and Family Social Work, 17 (2). pp. 192-201. ISSN 1356-7500 (paper); 1365-2206 (online)
Stanley, Nicky, Austerberry, Helen, Bilson, Andy, Farrelly, Nicola, Hussein, Shereen, Larkins, Cath, Manthorpe, Jill and Ridley, Julie (2012) Turning away from the public sector in children's out-of-home care: An English experiment. Children and Youth Services Review, 35 (1). pp. 33-39. ISSN 0190-7409
Bell, Jo, Stanley, Nicky, Mallon, Sharon and Manthorpe, Jill (2012) Life Will Never be The Same Again: Examining Grief in Survivors Bereaved by Young Suicide. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 20 (1). pp. 49-68. ISSN 1054-1373
Richardson Foster, Helen ORCID: 0000-0002-1871-1578, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Miller, Pam and Thomson, Gill ORCID: 0000-0003-3392-8182 (2012) Police intervention in domestic violence incidents where children are present: police and children's perspectives. Policing and Society, 22 (2). pp. 220-234. ISSN 1043-9463 (Print), 1477-2728 (Online)
Stanley, Nicky, Miller, Pam, Richardson Foster, Helen and Thomson, Gill ORCID: 0000-0003-3392-8182 (2011) Children's experiences of domestic violence: Developing an integrated response from police and Child Protection Services. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 25 (12). pp. 2372-2391. ISSN 0886-2605
Stanley, Nicky, Miller, Pamela, Richardson Foster, Helen and Thomson, Gillian ORCID: 0000-0003-3392-8182 (2011) A Stop-Start Response: Social Services' Interventions with Children and Families Notified following Domestic Violence Incidents. The British Journal of Social Work, 41 (2). pp. 296-313. ISSN 0045-3102
Stanley, Nicky, Ridley, Julie, Harris, Jessica and Manthorpe, Jill (2011) Disclosing disability in the context of professional regulation: a qualitative UK study. Disability and Society, 26 (1). pp. 19-32. ISSN 0968-7599
Stanley, Nicky, Mallon, Sharon, Bell, Jo and Manthorpe, Jill (2010) Suicidal students' use of and attitudes to primary care prevention services. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 11 (4). pp. 315-325. ISSN 1463-4236
Bell, J, Stanley, Nicky, Mallon, S and Manthorpe, J (2010) The role of perfectionism in student suicide: three case studies from the UK. Journal of Death and Dying, 61 (3). pp. 251-267. ISSN 0030-2228
Bilson, Andy, Price, Joanna and Stanley, Nicky (2010) Developing Employment Opportunities for Care Leavers. Children & Society, 25 (5). pp. 382-393. ISSN 09510605
Worsley, Aidan Richard clive ORCID: 0000-0002-3925-3297, Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, O'Hare, Philip, Keeler, Anne, Cooper, Lorraine and Hollowell, Clare (2009) Great Expectations: The Growing Divide between Students and Social Work Educators. Social Work Education, 28 (8). pp. 828-840. ISSN 0261-5479
Rapaport, Joan, Manthorpe, Jill and Stanley, Nicky (2009) Mental health and mental capacity law: some mutual concerns for social work practice. Practice: Social Work in Action, 21 (2). pp. 91-105. ISSN 0950-3153
Stanley, Nicky, Mallon, Sharon, Bell, Jo and Manthorpe, Jill (2009) Trapped in transition: findings from a UK study of student suicide. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 37 (4). pp. 419-432. ISSN 0306-9885
Stanley, Nicky and Manthorpe, Jill (2008) Small acts of care: exploring the potential impact of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 on day-to-day support. Social Policy and Society, 8 (1). pp. 37-48. ISSN 1474-7464, 1475-3073
Stanley, Nicky and Appleton, Jane V. (2008) Editorial: International Perspectives on Child Harm. Child Abuse Review, 17 (2). pp. 75-77. ISSN Online ISSN: 1099-0852
Manthorpe, Jill, Rapaport, Joan and Stanley, Nicky (2008) Expertise and experience: service users' and carers' views on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The British Journal of Social Work, 39 (5). pp. 884-900.
Appleton, Jane V. and Stanley, Nicky (2008) Editorial: Safeguarding Children - Everyone's Responsibility. Child Abuse Review, 17 (1). pp. 1-5. ISSN Online ISSN: 1099-0852
Manthorpe, Jill, Rapaport, Joan and Stanley, Nicky (2008) The Mental Cacpacity Act 2005 and its influences on social work practice: debate and synthesis. Practice, 20 (3). pp. 151-162. ISSN 0950-3153
Stanley, Nicky (2008) Young People and Carers' Perspective on the Mental Health Needs of Looked-After Adolescents. Child and Family Social Work, 12 (3). pp. 239-247.
Stanley, Nicky (2007) Editorial: Exploring the Relationship between Children's and Adults' Needs. Child Abuse Review, 16 (5). pp. 279-282. ISSN 1099-0852
Lyons, C, Brotherton, A, Stanley, N, Carrahar, M and Manthorpe, J (2007) The Mental Capacity Act 2005: Implications for Dietetic Practice. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 20 (4). pp. 302-310. ISSN 1365-277X
Gough, David and Stanley, Nicky (2007) Editorial: Implementing Policies and Procedures. Child Abuse Review, 16 (4). pp. 205-208. ISSN 1099-0852
Stanley, Nicky, Ridley, Julie, Manthorpe, Jill, Harris, Jennifer and Hurst, Alan (2007) Dangerous disclosures. Mental Health Today . pp. 24-27. ISSN 1474 5186
Stanley, Nicky (2007) Editorial: Acknowledging Context and Complexity. Child Abuse Review, 16 (3). pp. 137-139. ISSN 1099-0852
Gough, David and Stanley, Nicky (2007) Editorial: Policy, Practice and Decision Making in Child Neglect. Child Abuse Review, 16 (2). pp. 71-73. ISSN 1099-0852
Stanley, Nicky and Gough, David (2007) Editorial: A New Image for Child Abuse Review. Child Abuse Review, 16 (1). pp. 1-4. ISSN 1099-0852
Caan, Woody, Stanley, Nicky and Manthorpe, Jill (2006) Depression and persistent effects on work: an 'expert patient' survery of 500 social workers. Journal of Public Mental Health, 5 (4). pp. 38-44. ISSN 1746-5729
Bell, Jo and Stanley, Nicky (2006) Learning about Domestic Violence: Young People's Responses to a Healthy Relationships Programme. Sex Education: sexuality, society and learning, 6 (3). pp. 237-250. ISSN 1468-1811
Stanley, Nicky (2006) Editorial: Safeguarding Children alongside and through the Criminal Justice System. Child Abuse Review, 15 (4). pp. 221-223. ISSN 1099-0852
Craig, Gary and Stanley, Nicky (2006) Visibility, Immobility and Stigma: Young People's Use of Sexual Health Services in Rural Areas. Children & Society, 20 (3). pp. 171-182. ISSN 1099-0860
Gough, David and Stanley, Nicky (2006) Editorial: Making and Understanding Links. Child Abuse Review, 15 (3). pp. 155-158. ISSN 1099-0852
Stanley, Nicky (2006) Editorial: Protecting and Empowering. Child Abuse Review, 15 (2). pp. 75-78. ISSN 1099-0852
Gough, David and Stanley, Nicky (2006) Editorial: Drawing the Line. Child Abuse Review, 15 (1). pp. 1-3. ISSN 1099-0852
Stanley, Nicky, Borthwick, Rachel and Macleod, Annie (2006) Antenatal Depression: Mothers' Awareness and Professional Responses. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 7 (3). pp. 257-268.
Stanley, Nicky and Flynn, M (2005) The Journal of Adult Protection. The Journal of Adult Protection, 7 (4). pp. 1-42. ISSN 1460-2245
Stanley, Nicky (2005) Editorial: Developing Structures and Training for New Partnerships in Child Protection. Child Abuse Review, 14 (5). pp. 293-296. ISSN 1099-0852
Stanley, Nicky and Gough, David (2005) Editorial: Being Aware of What we are Doing. Child Abuse Review, 14 (4). pp. 217-219. ISSN 1099-0852
Stanley, Nicky (2005) Editorial: Identifying Sources of Expertise. Child Abuse Review, 14 (3). pp. 157-159. ISSN 1099-0852
Stanley, Nicky, Riordan, Denise and Alaszewski, Helen (2005) The Mental Health of Looked After Children: Matching Response to Need. Health and Social Care in The Community, 13 (3). pp. 239-248. ISSN 0966-0410
Stanley, Nicky (2005) Parents' Perspectives on Young Suicide. Children & Society, 19 . pp. 304-315. ISSN 0951-0605
Stanley, Nicky and Flynn, M (2005) Special Issue on Mental Health. The Journal of Adult Protection, 7 (4). pp. 1-5. ISSN 1466-8203
Stanley, Nicky and Gough, David (2004) Editorial: Child Protection: Achieving Attitudinal and Behavioural Change. Child Abuse Review, 13 (5). pp. 289-291. ISSN 1099-0852
Gough, David and Stanley, Nicky (2004) Editorial: Inquiry, Nurse Communication Sexual Abuse and Addiction and Child Athletes. Child Abuse Review, 13 (3). pp. 173-175. ISSN 1099-0852
Stanley, Nicky (2004) Editorial: A Year On from the Climbie Inquiry. Child Abuse Review, 13 (2). pp. 75-79. ISSN 1099-0852
Gough, David and Stanley, Nicky (2004) Editorial: Parenting Capacity. Child Abuse Review, 13 (1). pp. 1-4. ISSN 1099-0852
Stanley, Nicky (2003) Editorial: Intial Responses to the Green Paper. Child Abuse Review, 12 (5). pp. 274-278. ISSN 1099-0852
Lynch, Margaret A. and Stanley, Nicky (2003) Editorial: Broadening Our Horizons. Child Abuse Review, 12 (4). pp. 211-215. ISSN 1099-0852
Stanley, Nicky, Penhale, B, Riordan, D and Holden, S (2003) Working on the interface: identifying professional responses to families with mental health and child-care needs. Health and Social Care in the Community, 11 (3). pp. 208-218. ISSN 1365-2524
Barbour, Rosaline B., Stanley, Nicky, Penhale, Bridget and Holden, Sue (2002) Assessing Risk: Professional Perspectives on Work Involving Mental Health and Child Care Services. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 16 (4). pp. 323-334. ISSN 1356-1820
Manthorpe, Jill, Stanley, Nicky and Caan, Woody (2002) Managers' and Practitioners' Experiences of Depression: A unifying phenomenon? Journal of Integrated Care, 10 (4). pp. 27-30. ISSN 1476-9018
Stanley, Nicky and Manthorpe, Jill (2001) Reading Mental Health Inquiry Reports: Messages for Social Work. Journal of Social Work, 1 (1). pp. 77-99. ISSN 1468-0173
Stanley, Nicky and Manthorpe, Jill (2001) Responding to Students' Mental Health Needs: Impermeable Systems and Diverse Users. Journal of Mental Health, 10 (1). pp. 41-52. ISSN 0963-8237
Stanley, Nicky (2001) Reforming the Mental Health Act - Editorial Policy Comment. Journal of Adult Protection, 3 (3). pp. 2-5. ISSN 1466-8203
Manthorpe, J. and Stanley, N. ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625 (2000) Student approaches: supporting students in A&E settings. Accident and Emergency Nursing, 8 (2). pp. 88-91. ISSN 0965-2302
Stanley, Nicky (1999) User-Practitioner Transactions in the New Culture of Community Care. British Journal of Social Work, 29 (3). pp. 417-435. ISSN 0045-3102
Stanley, Nicky and Penhale, Bridget (1999) The Mental Health Problems of Mothers Experiencing the Child Protection System: Identifying Needs and Appropriate Responses. Child Abuse Review, 8 (1). pp. 34-45. ISSN 1099-0852
Manthorpe, Jill and Stanley, Nicky (1999) Dilemmas in Professional Education: Responding Effectively to Students with Mental Health Problems. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 13 (4). pp. 357-367. ISSN 1356-1820
Stanley, Nicky, Manthorpe, Jill and Talbot, Marjorie (1998) Developing Interprofessional Learning in Child Protection at the Qualifying Level. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 12 (1). pp. 33-41. ISSN 1356-1820
Stanley, Nicky (1997) Domestic Violence and Child Abuse: Developing Social Work Practice. Child and Family Social Work, 2 (3). pp. 135-145. ISSN 1365-2206
Stanley, Nicky and Manthorpe, Jill (1997) Developing Training in Risk Assessment. Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 7 (1). pp. 26-38. ISSN 0953-5225
Stanley, Nicky and Manthorpe, Jill (1997) Private Placements in Social Work Education: Opportunity or Oppression? Social Work Education, 16 (1). pp. 20-32. ISSN 0261-5479
Bradley, Greta, Manthorpe, Jill, Stanley, Nicky and Alaszewski, A (1996) Training for Care Management: Using Research to Identify New Directions. Issues in Social Work Education, 16 (2). pp. 26-44.
Manthorpe, Jill, Bradley, G, Stanley, Nicky and Alaszewski, A (1996) Working together effectively? Assessing Older People for Community Care Services. Health Care in Later Life, 1 (3). pp. 145-155.
Stanley, Nicky, Manthorpe, Jill and Lesley, Gillespie Family physicians' interventions with young people in distress and their parents - managing confidentiality and levels of engagement. Academic Psychiatry, 32 (2). pp. 92-97. ISSN 0002-953X, 1535-7228
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Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, Miller, Pam, Richardson Foster, Helen ORCID: 0000-0002-1871-1578 and Thomson, Gill ORCID: 0000-0003-3392-8182 (2012) The Police Role in Identifying and Responding to Children Experiencing Domestic Violence. In: Vulnerable Children and the Law: International Evidence for Improving Child Welfare, Child Protection and Children's Rights. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, pp. 283-298. ISBN 9781849058681
Stanley, Nicky, Ellis, Jane and Bell, Jo (2010) Delivering preventitive programmes in schools: identifying gender issues. In: Children Behaving Badly? Peer Violence between Children and Young People. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. ISBN 9780470694404, 9780470976586
Stanley, Nicky, Ellis, J and Bell, J (2010) Delivering preventive programmes in schools: identifying gender issues. In: Children Behaving Badly? Exploring Peer Violence Between Children and Young People. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. ISBN 978-0470727058
Stanley, Nicky, Cleaver, H and Hart, D (2009) The impact of domestic violence, parental mental health problems, substance misuse and learning disability on parenting capacity. In: The Child's World: The Comprehensive Guide to Assessing Children in Need, 2nd Edition. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London. ISBN 978-1-84310-568-8
Trevillion, K., Domoney, J., Ocloo, J., Heslin, M., Ling, X. X., Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625, MacMillan, H., Ramchandani, P., Bick, D. et al (2020) For Baby's Sake: Final Evaluation Report. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
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Radford, Lorraine, Richardson Foster, Helen ORCID: 0000-0002-1871-1578, Barter, Christine Anne ORCID: 0000-0001-5682-5333 and Stanley, Nicky ORCID: 0000-0002-7644-1625 (2017) Rapid Evidence Assessment: What can be learnt from other jurisdictions about preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. Project Report. IICSA, London.
Radford, Lorraine, Dodd, Steven Robert, Barter, Christine Anne, Stanley, Nicky and Akhlaq, Ather (2017) The abuse of children in care in Scotland: A research review. Project Report. The Independent Inquiry into Child sexual Abuse, Scotland.
Oram, Sian, Hemmings, Stacey, Abas, Melanie, Howard, Louise, Bick, Debra, Jakobowitz, Sharon, Boyle, Adrian, Khondoker, Mizanur, Borschmann, Rohan et al (2016) Provider Responses Treatment and Care for Trafficked People : Final Report for the Department of Health Policy Research Programme : Optimising identification, referral and care of trafficked people within the NHS (115/0006). Project Report. Department of Health.
Stanley, Nicky, Ellis, Jane, Farrelly, Nicola Jane, Hollinghurst, Sandra, Bailey, Sue and Downe, Soo ORCID: 0000-0003-2848-2550 (2015) Preventing Domestic Abuse for Children and Young People (PEACH): A Mixed Knowledge Scoping Review. Project Report. National Institute for Health Research, London, UK.
Berry, Vashti Louise, Stanley, Nicky, Radford, Lorraine, McCarry, Melanie and Larkins, Cath (2014) Building Effective Responses: An Independent Review of Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Services in Wales. Project Report. Welsh Government, Cardiff.
Stanley, Nicky, Austerberry, Helen, Bilson, Andy, Farrelly, Nicola, Hargreaves, Katrina, Hollingworth, Katie, Hussein, Shereen, Ingold, Anne, Larkins, Cath et al (2012) Social Work Practices: Report of the National Evaluation. Project Report. Department for Education, London.
Stanley, Nicky, Borthwick, Rachel, Graham-Kevan, Nicola and Chamberlain, Ruth (2011) An Evaluation of a New Initiative for Male Perpetrators of Domestic Violence. Other. University of Central Lancashire, Preston.
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Stanley, Nicky, Fell, Ben, Miller, Pamela, Thomson, Gillian ORCID: 0000-0003-3392-8182 and Watson, John (2009) Men's Talk: Research to inform Hull's social marketing initiative on domestic violence. Other. University of Central Lancashire, Preston.
Stanley, Nicky, Ridley, Julie, Harris, Jessica, Manthorpe, Jill and Hurst, Alan (2007) Disclosing Disability: Disabled students and practitioners in social work, nursing and teaching. Project Report. Disability Rights Commission, London.
Cox, Pat and Stanley, Nicky (2007) Parental Mental Health and Child Well-Being for the Social Care Institute for Excellence. Other. Social Care Institute for Excellence.
Stanley, Nicky, Alaszewski, Helen and Riordan, H (2005) Feeling Mad or Sad ... What Helps? (leaflet). Other. Social Work Department, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, Hull.
Stanley, Nicky, Borthwick, Rachel and Macleod, Annie (2004) Antenatal Depression: Developing an Effective and Co-ordinated Service Response. Discussion Paper. Social Work Department, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, Hull.
Stanley, Nicky, Manthorpe, J and Gillespie, L (2004) Concern and Confidentiality: GPs' Responses to Young People in Distress and their Parents. Project Report. University of Hull, Hull.
Stanley, Nicky and Bell, Jo (2003) An Evaluation of the Pilot Healthy Relationships Programme, Preston Road Domestic Violence Project. Project Report. School of Nursing, Social Work and Applied Health Studies, University of Hull, Hull.
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This article is part of the Mtbr's Enduro Compare-O. See all the stories in this special section here–https://reviews.mtbr.com/category/enduro-compare-o-2014
One of the many things we've always liked about Trek's Remedy is the company's willingness to not just refine and repaint year-over-year, but make significant changes when the data points demand. With the convergence of riding styles that the "enduro influence" embodies, up-wheeling the venerable Rem' to 27.5-inch hoops just might make it the right springboard for traditional XC riders looking to go a little bigger.
While we've seen some companies essentially carve out existing 26ers to fit 27.5-inch wheels, Trek has taken a more deliberate path, redesigning the 140mm-travel bike from the wheel size up. The result is a characteristically fine ride, if not one that will leave you with some tough choices. More about those later, for now, let's ride.
Classy chassis, great on the ripples
The $5560 Remedy's full-carbon frame has a clean-cut toughness to it—traditional(ish) frame lines and a multitude of tubing shapes selected to maximize strength, rigidity and light weight. Underneath its race-inspired paint job is Trek's tougher, off-road-tuned version of their proprietary carbon layup, OCLV Mountain. The package creates a flex-free chassis from which its Full Floater Suspension system with an exclusive Dual Rate Control Valve (DRCV) FOX Float CTD shock can work its magic.
Essentially a two-stage shock, the DRCV purports to work optimally throughout the travel stroke by bringing more air volume on-line as-needed. Small impacts initiate only the highly-responsive small-volume air chamber for a supple feel on braking bumps and other high frequency irregularities. As hits get larger, a second chamber kicks in, bringing the benefits of a large-volume shock to the party.
True-to-form, we found the Remedy's small bump compliance to be excellent. It's calming influence was not only felt in the expected places—stutter sections and the like—but also on technical climbs where the subtly reactive suspension had a lively feel that helped the bike find traction. Complicit in its success here—Trek's use of bearings instead of bushings on the upper shock pivot, and yes, likely the attack-angle-improving 27.5 wheels.
Photo by Tyler Frasca.
This same low-end suppleness gave the Remedy 9.8 27.5/650b excellent traction in the corners and a predictable, aggressive cornering feel. Some of our riders felt a wider handlebar than the stock 720mm Bontrager might help get the bike leaned over easier, but that didn't take away from the "rail" feeling once you got there. Our early production bike had 720mm wide bars but current bikes are now shipping with proper 750mm wide bars
As we get to mid-stroke, the shock calls in reinforcements from the second air chamber. A noticeable plushness helps the bike handle larger square-edge hits without bogging down or losing momentum.
When things got bigger—drops, jumps and launches—the Remedy got a little bit out of its comfort zone. We didn't feel the bike was outgunned on these kind of impacts, so much as we felt the margin of error was less than on other bikes in the test. Hit a drop right and with good technique—no problem. Get a little off line or land heavy and the result from the Remedy felt more like "you just got away with one" rather than "I got your back."
That iffy feeling got us thinking about a couple other bikes in Trek's tightly-packed line. Would the 29-inch version of this bike, with the same travel and bigger wheels serve us better? Or should we move on up to their 160mm travel Slash 27.5er?
Our test ride of the Remedy's 29er brother in Sedona, Ariz. proved it capable of gobbling up copious amounts of chunkiness—perhaps more so than the 27.5 version.
We'll dive a little deeper on that in our conclusions on this bike, but first a few more incontrovertible notes, starting—err stopping— with braking performance.
Gimme a brake…and not one, but two shifters please
One of the things most of our test riders really liked about the Trek was the way its ABP Braking system kept even significant braking inputs from disrupting the suspension. Unlike other systems which tend to tighten up in this situation, the Trek's rear suspension kept doing its thing, seemingly undeterred by the braking forces.
Handled by Shimano's XT discs, braking performance was excellent with its heat-dissipating IceTech rotors providing fade-free performance even over long descents.
A full Shimano XT 2×10 drivetrain provided absolute competence throughout the test with no issues shift-after-shift. Compared to a 1x system, the Remedy's drivetrain was noisy with chain clatter, something that's even more noticeable when switching between bikes oppositely equipped.


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The environmental gains made by full transit vehicles can be offset by losses during slow times and on less used routes.
Kevin Libin, National Post · Dec. 7, 2009 | Last Updated: Dec. 11, 2009 8:01 PM ET
In this five-part series, the National Post looks at unexpected ways to help the environment. Read part one here and part two here. Today, in the third instalment, the problem with public transit.
When the Toronto Transit Commission announced in November it would hike fares a 25¢ in the new year -- a roughly 10% increase -- it blamed the usual suspects: rising costs of fuel and wages.
The system, said TTC chairman Adam Giambrone, faced a $100-million shortfall in next year's operating budget.
When the bad news broke, the Torontoist.com, compared the inflation of the TTC's 21 fare hikes in the past 30 years against the price of gasoline and against the inflation rate.
Read a transcript of the chat with Kevin Libin about the future of transit
Consistently, the analysis found, TTC fares had risen faster than inflation, and far faster than the price of gas. Between 1980 and 2010, the cash fare, adjusted for inflation, soared more than 80% and token prices are up 50%. The price of a litre of unleaded gas? Up about 30%, without inflation. As for wage increases, Statistics Canada reported last year that the median full-time, full-year salary of average Canadians has hardly increased at all since 1980.
Although it is charging more than ever, getting heftier federal, provincial and municipal subsidies than at any time in its history, although fuelling a car is pricier; and though its customer base has never been larger or keener to reduce its carbon footprint, the TTC, the largest system in the country, is struggling as much as ever to stem its losses. If this is the future of public transit, it does not look bright.
As other major systems across the continent strain in similar circumstances, the strategy of public transit system boosters has been to promote the service as an environmental necessity. In the name of Mother Nature, North American transit systems have received billions in subsidies in recent years — even though they were never developed for environmental purposes in the first place.
If the goal is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, air pollution and gas consumption, and maximize the environmental impact of sustainability spending, we may be better off without publicly funding transit at all.
"Subsidized transit is not sustainable by definition," says Wendell Cox, a transport policy consultant in St. Louis, and former L.A. County Transportation commissioner. "The potential of public transit has been so overblown it's almost scandalous."
It's not that environmentally minded transit promoters are being dishonest when they argue that city buses are more efficient than private cars: It's that they're talking about a fictional world where far more people ride buses. Mass transit vehicles use up roughly the same energy whether they are full or empty, and for much of the time, they're more empty than full.
For the bulk of the day, and on quieter routes, the average city bus usually undoes whatever efficiencies are gained during the few hours a day, on the few routes, where transit is at its peak.
Last year, policy analyst Randal O'Toole ran the numbers for the CATO Institute, where he is a senior fellow, comparing mass transit vehicles to private vehicles, ranking each based on how much energy they consume and how much CO2 they emit. The average motorized city bus, he reports, burns 27% more energy per mile than a private car and emits 31% more pounds of CO2. The U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics confirms that the average city bus requires 20% more energy per passenger than the average car.
"Unfortunately, right now the state of the art is that you're generally better off with private automobiles when you're talking about energy utilization. About the only way that transit can be competitive for energy or for environmental quality is if the transit lines gets an incredible amount of use, far higher than is now normally the case," says Tom Rubin, a transit policy consultant in California, and former chief financial officer of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. But crowded systems are a turn-off for riders, he says, so more passengers means even more buses and rail cars. "It's almost impossible to make transit more attractive without spending a huge amount of money."
The bus may be the most inefficient part of any major city's transit network, but they're the most vital part. Wider use of subways and light rail relies utterly on a feeder system of buses, says Michael Roschlau, president of the Canadian Urban Transit Association. "You can't just run [Calgary's] C-Train by itself and expect everyone to drive to the stations," he says. "Same thing for the subway in Toronto or Skytrain in Vancouver."
Without buses to carry them from their neighbourhood to the train stations, even fewer citizens would ride the trains, making trains, in turn, less efficient per passenger. Already, when trains, subways and streetcars are combined, the average public transit system is still no more efficient that private cars, according to the CATO study. All transit together does emit less CO2 than passenger cars carrying the same number of people the same distance (about 13% less) but even that gap is disappearing -- fast.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Data Book shows that while transit's energy efficiency has worsened in recent decades -- transit buses today consume 4,315 BTUs per passenger mile, or about 50% more energy than in 1980 -- the trend in cars has been the opposite direction: Today's cars are already nearly 20% more efficient than they were 25 years ago, down from 4,348 BTUs per passenger mile in 1980 to 3,514 in 2007.
The environmental case for public transit is falling just as fast, now that hybrid cars are achieving mass market status, with 65 models set to hit North American roads next year, Chevrolet planning to launch its electric Volt by 2011 and manufacturers rolling out super-high efficiency vehicles. In the next few years especially, the average energy consumption of passenger vehicles, and their emission levels, will only improve, with projections by the International Council on Clean Transportation showing the average auto could beat all public transit modes for efficiency and CO2 within the next five years.
"At this point, a Toyota Prius is less greenhouse-intensive than New York City Transit," Mr. Cox says. "Whatever advantage that transit has at the moment is going away very quickly."
Once eco-conscious urbanites realize the bus is worse for the planet than cars, they'll have little reason to keep riding, making transit's comparative per-passenger environmental footprint look even worse. And while transit system operators talk of "greening" their fleet, the fact is they face substantial limits. Whatever green gains transit can make, automobiles can probably do better, Mr. Rubin says.
When the federal government, the B.C. government and BC Transit revealed plans to run 20 hydrogen-powered buses in Whistler, B.C., in February for the Olympics, even the hard-green David Suzuki Foundation balked at the preposterous $2-million-per-bus price tag -- four times the price of a standard diesel -- arguing that the money would have been better spent on traditional transit initiatives, which "are on life support as far as the financial needs go," Ian Bruce, the group's climate-change campaigner, said.
He's surely right about the pointlessness of what will amount to a four-year, $90-million showpiece of technology not even remotely realistic for actual, financially strapped public transit systems.
And more money for diesel-powered buses may be hardly more worthwhile: The fact is that despite best efforts of transit planners and funding governments, and surveys showing a public keen on environmentalism, most commuters simply will not, or cannot, ride.
Last year's census data confirmed that the vast majority of Canadians have little use for transit. Just 216,000 more people rode at least once than did in 2001, a half-a-percentage increase, but that's actually a decrease relative to the 5.4% population growth over the same period. At the same time, Statistics Canada shows that operating costs for Canadian transit system has ballooned, up 30% from $3.7-billion in 2003 to $4.8-billion in 2007. In the United States, public transit's market share for travel has fallen by a third since 1980, from 1.5% to 1% in 2005. If anything were to get people out of their cars to stand at a bus stop, it would be the severe pain of soaring gas prices. But even as fuel in the United States. approached the unseen price of $4 a gallon in 2008, public transit ridership rose a mere 3.3%.
Transit boosters insist that we must go further, and redesign our cities to support transit systems. "Our cities continue to approve the suburban sorts of development that are very difficult to serve using public transit," Stephen Hazell, executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada, told reporters upon release of last year's disappointing ridership data. But the thousands of delivery trucks, taxi drivers, emergency vehicles, service trucks, car-bound workers and buses mean even high-density cities will keep needing highways, ring roads, bridges and flyovers. Meanwhile the massive cost of overhauling cities is just more billions to address an automobile environmental problem that is already on the way to resolving itself -- money that might be better, and more effectively deployed toward other earth-friendly measures, such as reducing traffic congestion.
A congestion charge toll implemented in Stockholm in 2007, for instance, reduced CO2 emissions in that city by roughly 16% last year, cut traffic by 18%, and, because it exempts low-emissions vehicles, led to a tripling of purchases of so-called green cars. Best of all, it sustains itself.
More roads, and more efficient roads, still won't address public transit's original, non-environmental purpose: providing mobility for citizens who lack their own. But where public transit is absent, or impractical, solutions for the small minority totally lacking other means have readily sprung up. Ridesharing applications for smart phones -- users enter their location and desired destination and a cost-conscious carpooler responds -- are already in wide use, Mr. Rubin says. Self-sustaining, small-scale private jitney systems have successfully operated for years in Atlantic City and Puerto Rico (all North America's early public transit systems were privately operated until they were nationalized). And with billions freed up from public transit funds, it appears entirely feasible to simply offer subsidized Prius taxis, or even car subsidies, to the small portion of the public entirely reliant on public mobility. A study last year by HDR Decision Economics, commissioned by the Canadian Urban Transit Association, found that Canada's public systems will need $78-billion more in infrastructure spending and $3.6-billion in annual subsidies to reach optimum capacity. For that kind of money, Canadian governments could, if they wanted, hand out $16,000 car or taxi allowances to every single Canadian who rides transit even casually, and still have $50-billion left over at the end of the decade. That plan wouldn't please the public unions and other transit-reliant lobbies pressing for more green-related transit funding. But it would relieve Canadians from having to perpetually prop up a system that's increasingly unsustainable -- financially and environmentally.
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SAN FRANCISCO >> About 3,000 Verizon Wireless workers will have to transfer to different offices or find new jobs as part of a shake-up that will close five of the company's customer call centers.
The changes announced Wednesday affect Verizon offices in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Verizon is closing customer service centers in some of those states and changing the types of jobs located in other states, said company spokesman Paul Macchia.
According to a press release, Verizon "will consolidate Connecticut operations into its facility at 20 Alexander Drive in Wallingford ... vacating leased facilities at 500 Research Parkway in Meriden and 55 Capital Boulevard in Rocky Hill."
The upheaval imperils the current jobs of about 4 percent of the 73,000 people who work for Verizon, the largest U.S. wireless carrier. Workers who don't want to move or can't find different jobs within Verizon will receive severance packages, Macchia said.
Verizon is making the changes amid signs that competition is heating up in the wireless market. Rivals AT&T Inc., Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. all have been rolling out less-expensive subscription plans in an attempt to lure away each other's customers. But Macchia said the reorganization wasn't spurred by anything Verizon's competition has been doing.
Verizon doesn't regard this reorganization as a cost-cutting measure because the company plans to fill all the openings created by the reorganization. Some savings could still be realized by closing five of Verizon's 31 customer call centers.
The closures are supposed to be completed by early May.
An additional 2,200 employees are being moved to offices that a short drive from the current locations, according to Macchia.


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The beautiful game has been saved for last at London 2012, with the men's gold medal match taking place on Saturday, the penultimate day of the Games. There are some important questions to ponder while we sit tight in anticipation for the final match. What's the best strategy for taking a penalty kick? When is it worth committing a professional foul? And when is a goal not a goal? Find out about all this and more with our impressive collection of football articles.
It's a great day for individual dressage today with the Grand Prix freestyle test taking place in Greenwich Park. It's amazing how those horses can perform elegant and complicated movements without getting their legs in a muddle. Coming to think of it, it's amazing that they can even go through their innate gaits without getting their legs in a muddle, given that there's four of them and they are very long. And what about animals who've got even more legs?
Today the men's table tennis teams will be battling for gold. Table tennis first became an Olympic sport in 1988, but changed its scoring system in 2001 to make matches more exciting for spectators. But how do the old and new scoring systems compare in terms of favouring skill versus luck?
It's the very last medal day for track cycling! If you've been watching, you might have noticed the steep banks of the elegant wooden cycling track. And you may have been impressed by the sweeping curved roof and beautiful cedar clad exterior of the Velodrome, the first of the 2012 London Olympic venues to be completed.
Today's a great day for badminton with gold medals being awarded in the men's singles and doubles. This got us thinking about shuttlecocks. They are not like balls at all and this means that they don't behave like balls either. John D. Barrow, mathematician, cosmologist and prolific popular science writer, explains.
A new mathematical analysis of how to hit a winning serve shows that spin is the thing. Perhaps there's still time for Murray's coach to include some maths in his preparations for the match today...
The men's lightweight fours and the women's eights are going to compete for medals today, but are they sitting in the right place? Usually you expect to find rowers positioned in a symmetrical fashion, alternately right-left, right-left as you go from one end of the boat to the other. However, the regularity of the rower's positions hides a significant asymmetry that affects the way the boat will move through the water.
Usain Bolt is determined to become a legend this weekend, by running the 100m in 9.4 seconds. But what does mathematics have to say about this quest? Is there an ultimate limit which no runner can possibly surpass? If there is one, where would such a limit lie? For instance, is there a sub 9 second record in the offing?


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Yes, and some of those turn-of-the-century popular theories are actually quite humorous to read now, given archeology's many discoveries since.GC wrote:
This is another 100 years old book. The period of a couple of decades either side of the beginning of the 20th century is not a good place to get one's information. Scholarship is polluted with all sorts of theories which have long since been discredited - not least the Solar school.
There were also the equally popular 'polar origins' theories, African Egyptian racial dogmas, Martian colonist conjectures and a host of other now long-since discarded ideas.
It's just an inherency of Myth, that any number of interpretations can be made plausible.
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In Once Upon a Farm, Rory Feek has written a second book about his music journey and also his new journey about being a single dad to Indiana. He already raised two adult children from a previous marriage, Hopie and Heidi. Rory and Joey had a career of being a country music group who also happened to be married to each other. The book picks up where the last book ended. This book begins by explaining to readers the final moments of his wife Joey dying from cancer. She battled cancer twice and eventually lost her battle. He describes to readers how difficult it is to live without Joey and how he has questions for God. He shared personal stories about how she loved farming and how he hopes to continue that dream for her. After her death, he was left with his four year old daughter who has Down syndrome. He was very open with the challenges of raising a daughter after being out of the game for a few years. The book contains lessons and stories about how Rory learned about growing up and building a farm and what Joey taught him through her love. He also revealed how his older daughter Hopie came out to him and how she eventually got engaged. Rory shared how he choose to love her unconditionally and how he realized that Hopie's faith is between her and God.
I would recommend this awesome book to anyone who enjoy country music and their artists and who loves to read an inspiring story. I have heard of their story before and I can only imagine what heartache Rory went through when he lost his wife and being forced to raise a child alone. I have watched their TV show before and heard them perform before and was amazed with their harmony and their love story. I haven't read the first book yet. I own the first one and it's on my list to read. I still felt I was able to understand some parts of their story without having read the first one. This one is really a continuation of the first one and what Rory went through when his wife died. I also love how he shared some stories about his songwriting and how he wrote a few hit songs for a few artist, such as "Some Beach" for Blake Shelton and "A Little More Country Than That" for Easton Corbin. If you're looking for a new book to read, then read this one!
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